the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ester 3:4
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Meskipun pada tiap-tiap hari kata mereka itu kepadanya begitu, tiada juga didengarnya akan kata mereka itu, lalu mereka itupun memberitahu Haman, hendak melihat kalau kata Mordekhai akan menang, karena sudah dinyatakannya kepada mereka itu hal ia orang Yahudi adanya.
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
when they spake: Genesis 39:10
that they told: Daniel 3:8, Daniel 3:9, Daniel 6:13
he had told: Ezra 1:3, Daniel 3:12, Daniel 3:16-18, Daniel 3:23-30, Daniel 6:20-28, Jonah 1:9
Reciprocal: Exodus 3:6 - I am
Cross-References
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
So that when he heareth the wordes of this othe, he blesse hym selfe in his heart, saying: I shall haue peace, I wyll walke in the meanyng of myne owne heart: to put the drunken to the thirstie.
Wherefore thus saith the Lorde: Thou shalt not come downe fro the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death. And Elias departed.
They aunswered him: There came a man vp against vs, and sayde vnto vs: Go, & turne againe vnto the king that sent you, and saye vnto him, thus saith the Lorde: Is there not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquyre of Beelzebub the God of Ekrom? Therefore thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt dye the death.
And he saide vnto him, thus saith the Lorde: Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to aske counsell at Beelzebub the god of Ekrom, as though there had ben no God in Israel, whose word thou mightest seeke after: therfore thou shalt not come downe of the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt dye the death.
And Elisa sayde vnto him: Go, and say vnto him, Thou shalt recouer: howebeit, the Lorde hath shewed me that he shall surely dye.
He sayeth in his heart, tushe, the Lord hath forgotten: he hydeth away his face, and he wyll neuer see it.
Lest Satan shoulde circumuent vs: For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs.
But I feare lest by any meanes, that as the serpent begyled Eue through his subtiltie, euen so your myndes shoulde be corrupted fro the singlenesse that is towarde Christe.
And Adam was not deceaued: but the woman beyng deceaued, was in the transgression.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him,.... Putting him in mind of his duty to obey the king's command, suggesting to him the danger he exposed himself to, pressing him to give the reasons of his conduct:
and he hearkened not unto them; regarded not what they said, and continued disobedient to the king's order, and disrespectful to Haman
that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand; they informed Haman that Mordecai refused to give him reverence as the king had ordered; this they did to try whether such a conduct would be suffered and bore with, and whether Mordecai would persevere in it when taken notice of:
for he had told them that he was a Jew; which was all the reason he gave why he would not reverence Haman; and a reason sufficient, because, by a fundamental law of his religion, he was not to worship mere man, but God only: and this confirms what has been before observed; for this would have been no reason for refusing civil respect and honour, but was a strong one for denying religious worship and reverence; and no wonder that the Jews should refuse it, when even the Grecians, though Heathens, refused to give the Persian kings the divine honours they required m; yea, the Athenians put Timagoras to death for prostrating himself in such a manner to Darius n; for the Persian kings were, as Aristotle says o, called Lord and God, and said to hear and see all things.
m Herodot. Polymnia, sive, l. 7. c. 136. Justin e Trogo. l. 6. c. 2. Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 1. 21. n Plutarch. in Artaxerxe, Valer. Maxim. l. 6. c. 3. o De Mundo, c. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Whether Mordecai’s matters would stand - Rather, “whether Mordecai’s words would hold good” - whether, that is, his excuse, that he was a Jew, would be allowed as a valid reason for his refusal.